New airport jobs with Jet2

Posted on: August 31st, 2009 Posted by Steven Powell

The East Midlands Airport is welcoming the addition of Jet2 to the airport and with it will come 250 new job openings. The low-fare budget airline only announced yesterday that it is joining the airport located close to Castle Donington and it is to become their eighth UK base. It is hoped that the move [...]

Brits consume too much alcohol on holiday

Posted on: August 31st, 2009 Posted by Simon Bracknell

A new survey has shown that English holidaymakers drink on average eight alcoholic drinks every day of their holiday, meaning that on an average holiday, Britons will consume more than 200 units of alcohol. More than 25 per cent of those questioned admitted to drinking three times the amount than they normally drink. However, 70 [...]

Johannesburg launches bus service before World Cup

Posted on: August 31st, 2009 Posted by Michael Bond

Billed as the city’s first reliable public transport system, the new bus service built in anticipation of the hundreds of thousands of football fans due to arrive next year has come under heavy criticism from private transport operators who say that it will ruin their own businesses. As well as the football community next year, [...]

Airport weighs increasing car rental tax

Posted on: August 31st, 2009 Posted by Marianna Lee

Residents of the small town of Hayden, which is just west of the Yampa Valley Airport, will vote on whether to increase the tax on car rentals from their airport. The commission for the airport discussed on Thursday evening what possible effects that levying the proposed 3.5 per cent tax increase would have. One of [...]

Backpacker saved after eight days

Posted on: August 31st, 2009 Posted by Lucy Williams

A 70-year-old man was rescued on Sunday after going missing on a four-day adventure into the Great Smoky Mountains. Morgan Briggs started his hike on Saturday 22nd August in the wilderness that is located on the North Carolina and Tennessee borders. Briggs says he got lost quite quickly, on his second day in fact, so [...]

Turkey proving a winner as tourist numbers are up

Posted on: August 28th, 2009 Posted by Steven Powell

The latest figures released from the online travel company, On the Beach, have suggested that tourist numbers for Turkey have been on the increase. Brits have been heading there in droves as they do not have the euro currency which the British pound has been doing so badly against recently. As the great British summer [...]

Brits failing to buy travel insurance

Posted on: August 28th, 2009 Posted by Simon Bracknell

This Bank Holiday weekend will see approximately two million Brits jet away for a sunnier choice as they strive to take advantage of the last bits of summer that are still left. A survey by Lloyds TSB Added Value Accounts has discovered that 10 per cent of those asked said they have travelled on holiday [...]

Cruise with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse

Posted on: August 28th, 2009 Posted by Michael Bond

The two new latest offering from Disney Cruise Line have taken another step forward to their launch in 2011. A coin has been laid under the keel of the Disney Dream ship by none other than Mr Donald Duck himself. The ceremony took place at a ship yard in Papenburg in Germany earlier this week. [...]

Hertz goes all green car rental for the environment

Posted on: August 28th, 2009 Posted by Marianna Lee

With the world looking for greener modes of transport, some people are choosing to sell their car in favour of renting, as and when they need it. When people are travelling on holiday they too are looking for rental cars but some are turning their attention to a greener option of rental car, something that [...]

Myanmar looking to attract more tourists

Posted on: August 28th, 2009 Posted by Lucy Williams

Hoteliers in the city of Bagan are looking at new ways of attracting tourists to the ancient site and have come up with the idea of adding a Night Bazaar to the area. A spokesperson from the Myanmar Hoteliers Association (MHA) said they hoped to attract world travellers by offering them a nice shopping area. [...]